An updated study on near-fault ground motions of the 1978 Tabas, Iran, earthquake (Mw = 7.4)

Scientia Iranica

Volumn 18, Issue 4 A, 2011, Pages 895-905

  Yaghmaei Sabegh, S ^a   Tsang, H H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Directivity; Dynamic corner frequency; Ground motion; Iran; Near fault; Tabas earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DIRECTIVITY; DYNAMIC CORNER FREQUENCY; GROUND MOTIONS; IRAN; NEAR FAULT; TABAS EARTHQUAKE;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUND MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; RESEARCH WORK;

IRAN; TABAS; YAZD;

EID: 80054828497     PISSN: 10263098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scient.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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